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461 - Leo I the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 - Celestine IV, [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1285 - Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies
1299 - Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
1444 - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20
1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 - Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
1670 - Geory Horn, [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1673 - Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1779 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
1891 - JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37
1909 - Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 - Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1940 - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1948 - Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1954 - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1959 - Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1960 - Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 - Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 - Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1970 - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1971 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
1972 - Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies
1973 - Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 - Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
1978 - Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
1979 - Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
1981 - Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
1982 - Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
1982 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77
1984 - Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1984 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 - Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1990 - Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry), dies at 40
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies
1991 - Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 - Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
1992 - Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1993 - Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1994 - Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
1994 - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1995 - Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29
1995 - Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54
1995 - Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
1996 - Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
1996 - Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
1997 - William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
2008 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)